Elise A. Weir address: 227 Ayres Hall, 1403 Circle Dr., Knoxville, TN 37996 email: [email protected] website: https://www.math.utk.edu/~weir/ Education Ph.D., Mathematics August 2018 University of Tennessee, Knoxville Dissertation: \Dimension of the Restricted Hitchin Component for Triangle Groups" Advisor: Morwen Thistlethwaite B.S., Honors Mathematics, Summa Cum Laude University of Tennessee, Knoxville Honors thesis advisor: Grozdena Todorova Research Interests Representation Theory, Low-Dimensional Topology, and Hyperbolic Geometry Employment Postdoctoral Associate August 2018 - present University of Tennessee, Knoxville Graduate Teaching Associate August 2014 - July 2018 University of Tennessee, Knoxville HIM & Identity Technical Services June 2013 - December 2013 Epic Systems, Verona, WI Computational Skills Coursework C, C++, MATLAB Research Use GAP, LATEX, Mathematica, Python, Sage Vocational Use Intersystems Cach´e,Perl, Visual Basic Awards and Honors June 2018 Selected for participation in AMS Mathematics Research Community on Number Theoretic Methods in Hyperbolic Geometry April 2018 Yueh-er, Hong-hsu and Clarence Cheng Kuo Fellowship for Academic Merit Summer 2017 University of Tennessee Mathematics Department Summer Research Fellowship Scheduled Presentations January 2019 Zariski dense surface subgroups in SL(5,Z) and the restricted Hitchin component for triangle groups AMS Special Session on Number Theoretic Methods in Hyperbolic Geometry, Joint Mathematics Meetings, Baltimore, MD. Presentations November 2018 The Hitchin component for triangle groups in Sp(2m) & SO(m; m + 1) (poster) Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, Rice University, Houston, TX. November 2018 The dimension of the restricted Hitchin component for triangle groups (invited) Topology Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. April 2018 The dimension of the restricted Hitchin component for a triangle group Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, Chicago, IL. February 2018 The dimension of the restricted Hitchin component for a triangle group (invited) Topology Seminar, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. December 2017 The dimension of the restricted Hitchin component for a triangle group Algebra Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. April 2016 Pseudomodular surfaces (expository) Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. November 2015 Complex hyperbolic geometry (expository) Geometry and Topology Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. April 2015 Faithfulness of the Burau representation of the braid group (expository) Algebra Seminar, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN. Conferences November 2018 Texas Geometry and Topology Conference, Houston, TX April 2018 Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, Chicago, IL June 2017 Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology, Philadelphia, PA April 2017 Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, East Lansing, MI March 2017 Southern Regional Algebra Conference, Mobile, AL March 2017 MAA Southeastern Section Meeting, Macon, GA May 2016 Graduate Student Conference in Algebra, Geometry, and Topology, Philadelphia, PA April 2016 Graduate Student Topology and Geometry Conference, Bloomington, IN Professional Activities 2016-2017 Student teaching and academic mentor to a first year graduate student Fall 2014 & 2015 Timer for UT/Pro2Serve Math Contest 2009-2011 Treasurer for UNC Chapel Hill Association for Women in Mathematics Fall 2009 \Network the Event" Volunteer for Family Math Day at Morehead Planetarium Teaching Experience Primary Instructor, UTK College Algebra - Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Summer 2015, Summer 2016 Basic/Business Calculus - Spring 2015 Calculus I - Fall 2016, Spring 2017, Fall 2017, Fall 2018 Calculus II - Spring 2018 Calculus II Honors - Fall 2018 Calculus III - Fall 2015, Spring 2016 Calculus III Honors - Spring 2019 Geometry (senior level) - Spring 2019 Primary Instructor, UNC Introduction to Mathematical Modeling Topics in Mathematics for Non-Science Majors References • Morwen Thistlethwaite, Professor, University of Tennessee ([email protected]) • Marie Jameson, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee ([email protected]) • Lu´ısFinotti, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee (lfi[email protected]) • Teaching: Joan Lind, Associate Professor, University of Tennessee ([email protected]).